{"id":573892976,"date":"2021-01-26T22:32:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T03:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892976"},"modified":"2021-01-26T22:32:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T03:32:50","slug":"light-day-around-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/01\/26\/light-day-around-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Light day around here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web work today, and if only I meant Spider-Man work. But I updated a lot of pages I update around the web for work things, leaving only many of these pages un-updated. There are two glaring areas on this site to deal with, and I&#8217;m going to get into one of those this evening. <\/p>\n<p>I did add one thing to this site, on the front page. Careful observers will note one of the old photos has been replaced by a new photo. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out<\/a>. Maybe you&#8217;ll see it. You&#8217;ll definitely see it. There are only so many photographs to look at in that display. Maybe you&#8217;ll notice it. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannertodayspodcast.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s a new student loan grace period in place thanks to an executive order President Biden signed last week. So I talked with Phil Schuman, who is the executive director of Financial Wellness and Education at Indiana University, to see what this means for alumni, students and potential borrowers.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people will listen to this, and you should, too. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/972495643&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/on-topic-with-iu\" title=\"On Topic with IU\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Topic with IU<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/on-topic-with-iu\/on-topic-with-iu-student-loans-with-ius-financial-wellness-and-education-office\" title=\"On Topic with IU -- Student loans with IU&#x27;s Financial Wellness and Education office\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Topic with IU &#8212; Student loans with IU&#x27;s Financial Wellness and Education office<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Nationally, student loan debt reached $1.6 trillion dollars last year. Average monthly payments are between $200 and $300 and the U.S. Department of Education says about 20 percent of borrowers are in default. Tough economic times, to be sure. <\/p>\n<p>And I spent part of the afternoon looking for the next podcast idea. And that&#8217;s the day. Some days are more fruitful than others, what can you say? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web work today, and if only I meant Spider-Man work. But I updated a lot of pages I update around the web for work things, leaving only many of these pages un-updated. There are two glaring areas on this site to deal with, and I&#8217;m going to get into one of those this evening. 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